Arts
A treasury of Judaism and sports
Baseballs, Basketballs and Matzah Balls, by Mitchell Smith, Ph.D., AuthorHouse, 276 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by RABBI NORMAN M. COHEN If...
Vampires, Jews and the blood libel
The pop-culture mania for vampire stories meets the Holocaust in Sarah Jane Stratford’s debut novel, The Midnight Guardian, according to Marc Tracy's...
'The Messenger' — Israeli director dramatizes heartbreak of fallen soldiers' families
Israeli director Oren Moverman, in his directorial debut, elicits powerful, affecting performances from the stars of The Messenger, a film...
Kids, enter the 18th annual AJW Hanuka Cover Contest!
If you're a young artist in grades 1-8 (or a parent or grandparent of a budding artist), check out the...
Dylan trivia winners announced!
Congratulations to Lois Dobrin and Danny Hechter! Both correctly answered our Bob Dylan trivia question and will win copies of...
Orthodox and born to dance
Drawing on African and African-American cultures, 'The Good Dance' makes room for a little Jewish dancer Anna Schon explodes with...
When type became bullets
Robyn Stoller Awend’s exhibition of letterpress prints is inspired by renowned Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever By MORDECAI SPECKTOR A Yiddish...
Iconic photo of boy in Warsaw Ghetto inspires painter Samuel Bak
Samuel Bak’s first art exhibit took place in the Vilna Ghetto in 1942, when he was just nine years old....
Danish Resistance heroes come out with guns blazing in ‘Flame and Citron’
Thure Lindhardt (left) is Flame and Mads Mikkelsen is Citron, in Ole Christian Madsen’s Flame and Citron. (Photo: Nimbus Rights...
Story of Jews and France is ‘a love affair gone sour’
A photo of a Jewish family from Istanbul living in France in 1920 appears in director Yves Jeuland’s compelling documentary, Being...
